exiguous

exiguous
exiguity /ek'si gyooh"i tee/, exiguousness, n.exiguously, adv.
/ig zig"yooh euhs, ik sig"-/, adj.
scanty; meager; small; slender: exiguous income.
[1645-55; < L exiguus scanty in measure or number, small, equiv. to exig(ere) (see EXIGENT) + -uus deverbal adj. suffix]

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  • Exiguous — Ex*ig u*ous, a. [L. exiguus.] Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] Exiguous resources. Carlyle. {Ex*ig uous*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • exiguous — index minimal, slight Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • exiguous — scanty, 1650s, from L. exiguus small, petty, paltry, scanty in measure or number, from exigere (see EXACT (Cf. exact)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • exiguous — *meager, scant, scanty, skimpy, scrimpy, spare, sparse Analogous words: diminutive, tiny, *small, little: tenuous, slender, slight, *thin: limited, restricted, confined (see LIMIT vb) Antonyms: capacious, ample …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • exiguous — [adj] scanty bare, confined, diminutive, inadequate, limited, little, meager, narrow, negligible, paltry, petty, poor, restricted, skimpy, slender, slight, small, spare, sparse, tenuous, thin, tiny; concepts 771,789 Ant. plenty …   New thesaurus

  • exiguous — ► ADJECTIVE formal ▪ very small. ORIGIN Latin exiguus scanty …   English terms dictionary

  • exiguous — [eg zig′yo͞o əs, igzig′yo͞o əs] adj. [L exiguus, small < exigere: see EXACT] scanty; little; small; meager exiguity [ek΄sə gyo͞o′ə tē] n …   English World dictionary

  • exiguous — exigent, exiguous Neither word is common in ordinary usage and both are marked ‘formal’ in the COD (2006). Both are related to Latin exigere in its two meanings ‘to enforce payment of’ and ‘to weigh exactly’. Exigent corresponds to the first of… …   Modern English usage

  • exiguous — adjective Etymology: Latin exiguus, from exigere Date: 1651 excessively scanty ; inadequate < wrest an exiguous existence from the land > < exiguous evidence > • exiguously adverb • exiguousness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • exiguous — Meager Mea ger, Meagre Mea gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. makro s long. Cf. {Emaciate}, {Maigre}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [1913 Webster] Meager… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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